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External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said India's efforts to step up engagement with the countries of the region are reflection of its 'Neighbourhood First policy'.

Senior Union Minister Rajnath Singh assured the farm community that the MSP (minimum support price) will not only stay, it will be continuously increased too in coming years.

Bhushan, who has already deposited Re 1 as fine with the apex court’s registry on September 14, has filed two separate review petitions in the contempt case.

In April, the index had slipped into contraction mode, after remaining in the growth territory for 32 consecutive months.

The total cases in the country mounted to 61,45, 291 with 70,589 new infections, while the death toll reached 96,318 after 776 people succumbed to the disease in a span of 24 hours.

Maharashtra continues to top this list. It has alone contributed more than 23,000 followed by Andhra Pradesh with more than more than 9,000 cases.

Only Infosys and HCL Technologies emerged as gainers among the most valued firms. The market valuation of Reliance Industries Limited tumbled Rs 70,189.95 crore to Rs 14,88,797.82 crore.

Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju, Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla and Director of Intelligence Bureau Arvind Kumar also attended the meeting.

Arvind Kejriwal also informed that the Delhi government was in talks with UP, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh for increasing water availability in the national capital.

The British journal underscored that India has the world's fastest growing outbreak of Covid-19 in absolute numbers, adding that not relying on science despite a strong response at the outset of the pandemic is not a good situation to be in.

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The CBI named S.P. Rana, a Joint Secretary, who retired while on suspension, dismissed Assistant Secretary Babita Rani, Assistant Secretary Shikha Tomar and Assistant Programmer Ruchin Tomar in the case.

Mijito Vinito, First Secretary of the Permanent Mission of the UN, walked out of the session after Pakistan PM Imran Khan began talking about India in his virtual address.

The Indian side also told the Chinese delegation that the talks on disengagement should include Depsang as well as all face-off sites, insisting that it should be a simultaneous process and not a selective one, they said.

ADB said it has approved a $300 million loan to develop Rajasthan's secondary towns and a $270 million loan for Madhya Pradesh Urban Services Improvement Project.

Farmers have come out on the streets on the call for a ‘Bharat Bandh' by several farmers' organizations, including the BKU. Most of the farmers of Punjab and Haryana are opposing these Bills.